This full, Super Moon in Virgo, sometimes called the Storm Moon, Snow Moon, or Hunger Moon, comes during the last watery breathes of winter’s dark. Its energy is available to us from Saturday 2/16 through Friday 2/22.
February’s full moon in Virgo, urges us to tend to our own wise fire.
To move forward towards the spring equinox and the days beyond with practices that engage both solitude and nature.
(More guidance can also be found here)
~ Jill ♥
“Virgo is a symbol of the Vestal Virgin, a Roman woman chosen to live thirty years in virginal service to the goddess Vesta. These women were the keepers of the collective hearth, attending to the altar fire that supplied to homes throughout Rome. Though Vestals privileges rode on the upholding of their purity, the word “virgin” was not originally bogged down as it is now, in the morality of sexual chastity. Rather, virgin meant
“an unmarried woman” or
a woman who does not belong to a man (!) but only and wholly to herself(!!)
Virgo {and this Virgo moon} calls us back into our full sovereignty.
In tarot, Virgo rules The Hermit. A lone person who also carries the inner fire in the form of a lantern.
{Both The Hermit and Vesta’s Virgins tend and grow the wise fires}
The archetype of The Hermit is someone so deeply committed to the clarity of their own solitary path that they may live on the outskirts of society to avoid human contact.
While the shadow expression of The Hermit is a sourly self-righteous misanthrope, the balanced expression is a preservationist of the old ways, of plant languages, mycelium secrets, and astral practices.
The Hermit, like the Vestal Virgin, is the mystic who tends our connection to the Divine laws of nature. Nature in turn reveals itself in The Hermit’s unbound expression. The Hermit takes on this earthly practice for the love of the collective.
Tending and growing the wise fire is a solitary task.
When one spends time in solitude, loneliness becomes a distant memory.
Like every relationship, comfort and depth with ourselves grows with regularity and time.
Intimacy with our Self amplifies as we devote time to our own wilderness {and our “wilding”}, experiencing and expressing feelings,
honoring our bodies as they move through emotional and physical sensations,
speaking kindness to the rough, weatherworn parts,
holding and beholding ourselves with compassionate acceptance,
and recognizing our river’s patterns.
Ironically, the byproduct of deeper intimacy with our lone self, is a deeper more compassionate intimacy with those around us.
Truth speaks gently. A flickering whisper in the dark, easily drowned out by the noise of the world, the chattering of one’s own ego, the opinions of loved ones…
To practice hearing clearly, we need blank spaces.
This is where virginal purity applies. As in a virgin forest unsullied by our outer manipulation. In a forest, there is no context for fussing over articles of uniformity. The beauty of the forest is equal to its wild ferocity.
What space do we make that is only for the Self? Only to be experienced, held, and loved for its ephemeral singularity?
These private experiences are the wellspring of peace. In the quiet we observe the inherent wisdom of our essential Self, the embodied Divine. “
(Elise Entzenberger)
FULL MOON in VIRGO TAROT SPREAD
Place THE HERMIT as the signifier (top center, to refer back to)
Draw a card for each question {Or simply journal on the questions, if you prefer}
Use the answers and card interpretations to craft an affirmation to use until the New Moon (Weds, March 6th)
1. What can I shed that drowns out my inner wisdom?
2. What can I call in that allows me to better tend to my inner fire?
3. During this moon cycle, what qualities can I embody to be aligned with my sovereignty?
4. What is an inner resource I have overlooked or that has remained hidden to me?
Dogwood & Sage ~ Jill Werhane ♥
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